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Artist

Kanye West

Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&BGospelHip hop

Kanye West is a Contemporary R&B and Gospel act. Their catalogue also touches Hip hop, House and Pop. Their sound grew out of Lil Reese, Drumma Boy, Sister Nancy, Popcaan and Young Folks. Those roots explain a lot about how Kanye West arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as KIDS SEE GHOSTS, Ty Dolla $ign, Travi$ Scott, King Combs and Consequence, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Allan Kingdom, JPEGMAFIA, Weekend, James Blake and Sunday Service Choir, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 390 connections around Kanye West, reaching back through Lil Reese and forward to Allan Kingdom. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.